Word: chillness
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...question now: How long will the official chill on dissent last? While the repercussions may be less draconian than in the past, Deng has made it clear that Western-style democratic reform is out of the question. Indeed, some Western China watchers believe the Dengists have been extraordinarily lenient with the demonstrators, in part so that they could use the continuing disorder as an excuse to cut off political discussion...
After two months of this bitter chill, I again needed the feeling of the roaring crowd, the soggy hot dogs, and the fresh scent that is unique to the game of baseball...
...shooting will not wrap until 3 a.m. Such grueling conditions might test the patience of a film veteran, let alone a neophyte director making his first major motion picture. But the white- haired auteur remains focused and remarkably relaxed. Clad in a bulky parka to ward off the oceanside chill, he comes off like a cross between a Roman senator and a retired longshoreman as he hobnobs with the crew, rehearses the cast and then stands back to watch the action, his eyes twinkling. Between takes, Mailer crosses the street to another pub and peers in at noisy real- life...
Arensberg's first novel, Sister Wolf (1980), was a darker work of spooky psychological chill. If Group Sex is slightly less successful, the reason is that Frances is not quite clearly drawn. At one point we are told that she never blushes, but she already has, on an earlier page. There are in fact two Franceses, and only one of them blushes. The other one, spunky and with a rich sense of irony, is too smart to fall for a one-man traveling circus like Paul Treat. But comedy is a tough taskmaster, and it seems that Arensberg, like...
...years down the road, the Establishment is agonizing--a la The Big Chill--over the fact that all the acidinduced free expression didn't keep them from taking the same jobs as their stuffed-shirt predecessors, making the same money, and living in a society plagued with the same inequality, misery and ignorance...